Interesting tkui problem?

 Hi there!
 I haven't mudded in ages but I've been using Lyntin as an IRC client
for a while now. Anyway, a friend was fiddling around with mIRC
functions and came across $chr() (which returns an ascii character
given a number). It's all fun and games until he gets to $chr(129) -
and then my buffer just /stops udating/. Everything still WORKS mind,
I can tail -f my logs to keep up with the conversation and still talk,
just nothing more shows up in Lyntin.
 I haven't checked CVS (I'm running 4.1.1), but the problem was still
present when I unloaded my custom modules. Oddly enough, #showme
<ALT-129> doesn't cause a problem - it's only when the character is
recieved from the mud.
 A bit about my setup - I'm running win2k, and have a test "server"
that I wrote in perl which just listens on a socket and gives me basic
two-way communication.
 Now, if I hit alt-129 in lyntin the character shows up as a u with 2
dots above it, but the "mud" recieves a superscript n. When I
copy/paste the superscript n in the console to send it back to lyntin
it shows up as the u with 2 dots again. If I paste the superscript n
into lyntin's CommandEntry widget it doesn't accept the command (I hit
enter and nothing happens. unless i double-tap enter, then lyntin
crashes). Alt-129 in the win2k console shows up as the u with 2 dots,
and if I send this to lyntin the buffer stops updating.
 129 = 0x0081. 0x0081 appears to be a Unicode control character of
sorts (HIGH OCTET PRESET?), which I suspect is involved, but I haven't
been able to reproduce the problem with a basic python gui I whipped
up and I haven't even begun understand the subtleties of different
character encodings.
 So I thought I'd see if anyone else had any ideas :)

(I hope that was understandable)


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